[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#939627: mrtrix3: Qt4 removal from Buster

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 10:50:58PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> Source: mrtrix3
> Version: 3.0~rc3+git135-g2b8e7d0c2-3
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Depends upon Qt4 which will not be shipped with bullseye
> User: debian-qt-kde at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: qt4-removal
> 
> Hi! As you might know we the Qt/KDE team are preparing to remove Qt4
> as announced in:
> 
> [announced]
> <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/08/msg00006.html>
> 
> Currently Qt4 has been dead upstream and we are starting to have problems
> maintaining it, like for example in the [OpenSSL 1.1 support] case.
> 
> [OpenSSL 1.1 support]
> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=828522>
> 
> In order to make this move, all packages directly or indirectly depending on
> the Qt4 libraries have to either get ported to Qt5 or eventually get
> removed from the Debian repositories.
> 
> Therefore, please take the time and:
> - contact your upstream (if existing) and ask about the state of a Qt5
> port of your application
> - if there are no activities regarding porting, investigate whether there are
> suitable alternatives for your users
> - if there is a Qt5 port that is not yet packaged, consider packaging it
> - if both the Qt4 and the Qt5 versions already coexist in the Debian
> archives, consider removing the Qt4 version

Status update: Qt4 has now been droppped from testing, qt4 will be removed
from unstable by end of February (along with the remaining rdeps (currently 15)).

Cheers,
        Moritz